Tools for climate and agriculture
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Do you ever plan outdoor events where the weather is likely to be a factor? A fun run, a church or neighborhood picnic, or a wedding? If so, you might be interested in this quick and easy place to find the weather on a particular date in previous years. While, as they say, “past performance…
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Since it looks like frost may be coming to parts of the Southeast in the next week, I want to provide you with some links to help you find current forecasts for frost. It looks like to me that we are likely to see our first scattered frost in northern Georgia next week Wednesday or…
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Now that fall has finally arrived, it’s time to start thinking about when frost will return to the Southeast. Here are a few resources to help you find the average date of first fall frost. I will post an article later this week that describes how to get real-time frost forecasts. Keep in mind that…
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The USDA Climate Hubs has just released their new website, which provides information on the individual hubs and activities related to climate and working lands across the US. They still have a few bugs to work out on the pages, but you can check out the national page at https://www.climatehubs.oce.usda.gov/ or go directly to the…
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The Climate Impact Lab is an online web resource that provides interactive maps describing changes in climate that may be expected in the future. The maps provide the ability to look at ranges of changes in temperature and precipitation depending on how much carbon dioxide and methane are put into the atmosphere over time. Basically,…
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A wind rose is a diagram which shows how frequently wind comes from different directions. It can be used for purposes of planning an event or determining where to place a building. I once used wind rose information for a client in Dodge City, KS to help a casino find the sweetest spot for air…
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The American Geosciences Institute has an interesting map of drought risk available at https://www.americangeosciences.org/critical-issues/maps/drought-atlas. It shows a variety of parameters which are related to drought, including rainfall, stream flow and the Drought Monitor map. It also allows you to compare current droughts to previous ones. Check it out! (Note that the image below is not…